Striking a Balance: Mental Health Challenges and Work-Life Integration among Women Faculty in Indian B-Schools
Abstract:
Women faculty members from Indian B-schools face rising stress while they maintain a work-life balance because they need to handle academics alongside their personal tasks. This investigation analyzes the elements that generate stress alongside burnout, along with emotional strain, both in terms of their impact on professional achievement and general well-being. The researchers employed stratified random sampling to collect information from 150 womenB-school faculty members. Research performed on work environment conditions demonstrates that extensive durations of work combined with administrative tasks and research responsibilities negatively affect work-life balance while triggering anxiety, together with feelings of exhaustion and decreased job satisfaction. These issues become worse due to the lack of flexible work policies and insufficient wellness program access, and limited institutional support. Women academics battle role conflict since they must juggle their academic responsibilities with family tasks, while this dual responsibility creates unfavourable effects upon their physical and emotional state. It proposes adding faculty-oriented wellness programs combined with flexible work conditions and simple mental health help systems for employees. Implementing work-life balance policies within human resource frameworks leads to enhanced work sustainability and personal health within academic institutions. Success depends on evaluating faculty health regularly and giving them access to counselling both through institutional programs and specific work support initiatives for increasing their wellness and productivity while lowering the turnover rate B-schools should make both mental health and work-life balance their organizational priorities because this initiative leads to higher levels of faculty job satisfaction and retention while boosting institutional operational capabilities.
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